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Reflection Final
As a young student, I was first taught the alphabet. As years passed, I learned to put those
letters together to make words, sentences, and finally paragraphs in essays. For a large part of my
high school years, my writing improvement seemed to grow stagnant. When I arrived in English
101, I realized there is more to writing than just putting words on paper.
Expanding your writing ability can be difficult and often times frustrating, but when done
well, writing can change the opinions of thousands. In English 101, I learned the first step to
writing an advanced essay is to read and annotate the articles that pertain to the essay’s topic. I
learned the importance of adding questions to the article as I read it. The questions help me
remember what statements struck an interest, and it is a great way to remember what points to
cover in the essay. I also learned how important it is to research authors’ backgrounds. Any
author with an extensive background on the information covered in your essay can help establish
a stronger credibility.
Another important element of an essay is the thesis statement. Over the course of this
semester, I have written various types of essays, and in each essay, the thesis is always the most
important sentence. I have learned the necessity of combining the most important information
out of an article into one sentence. The thesis statement captures the reader’s attention and sets
the tone for the rest of the essay. I also learned that there are different types of thesis statements
associated with individual essays. The structure of a traditional thesis statement contains three
points that set the stage of the essay. Although the traditional thesis statement is associated with
a five paragraphed essay, this semester I have been encouraged to lengthen my essays by
